Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] back [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jesus Christ , when he er , went back to heaven he went back as a fe , as a glorified , but as a physical being . |
| 2 | The skull seems to become translucent , and within it — and in the flesh about it — knotted cords of white begin to form into a spiral which funnels back into a single thicker cord at the back of the skull . |
| 3 | ‘ No , nobody knows 'em from Adam , ’ he nodded jovially at the gardener who flashed back with a wall of white teeth . |
| 4 | At one stage it looked as if Gordon Hotson , of Sleaford , would put in a severe challenge , but after being five under in his second round he slipped back to a 69 , finishing a stroke behind the leaders . |
| 5 | I saw him take a look at the boat-house first , then , when I suppose he saw you were n't home , he went up towards the house , and after a bit he came back with a bag , you know , like Santa Claus , slung over his shoulder . |
| 6 | It had been some time since I had visited Ingleborough , so last summer I went back with a couple of friends to rediscover some of its hidden treasures . |
| 7 | In fact , an explanation which went back to a biologically grounded disposition could in this case precisely avoid the invocation of rational collective agency , which is rather an intellectualist embarrassment to the story as Hume ( 1738–40 ) tells it . |
| 8 | Last year they came back for a checkup and medics found their wheelchairs were ruined by the war torn terrain . |
| 9 | The first time I went back to a lake where I used to go as a child . |
| 10 | Now if the Labour group had moved a widening of erm the sort of provision in our elderly persons homes , I could have understood that , because we did n't have real figures , we could not get hold of real figures , every time I went back to a local party meeting , to the Labour group , to any other member they said , do you realise this home has this number of vacancies and your report says that number . |
| 11 | It seems that every time I come back from a big disappointment I win . ’ |
| 12 | Then one time she came back from a job and had a trendy , short cut . |
| 13 | Which was just as well , as this time he came back after a very few minutes . |